From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 20 13:34:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAA837B52E; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:34:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09695; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:34:51 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:34:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) In-Reply-To: <20000720132601.C67647@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Yes, if you happen to have a `dc' or `de' card laying around. Please > don't forget the PC164SX comes with no no-board NIC. So the assembler of > the machine is able to install their favorite NIC (or some cheapass Fry's > POS). Tulip cards are super cheap ($19.87 for a Netgear 2114X @ CDW.COM). The only reason to use an ISA card is if you're desperate for the PCI slots. > Or did you mean the performance issue? Only `xl' and `fxp' can do > zero-copy on coming packets (as wpaul told me yesterday). wpaul seems to > prefer the `xl' cards, and I want to use the NIC he supports the best, so > I prefer to use `xl' when possible. Well, we use what we know works and are comfortable with. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message